Moliere's "The School for Wives"
Jun. 28th, 2023 10:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
x_losA play that dares to ask, ‘what if Shakespeare was bad?’ "Much Ado, but with the fun surgically removed". Honestly this had better be funnier in French, because it has the atmosphere of a dead club. The performance (Skokie's finest (recorded)) did not help the text, but neither can I lay the blame for a failure of this depth on the good people of the northern shore. The same goes for Wilbur's verse translation.
The chief merit of the play is the fact that France has managed to make the otherwise-awful names ‘Agnes’ and ‘Horace’ tolerable with the aid of very liberal pronunciation. However French you're imagining, it was more French than that. This contribution is noted.
All the Proust I've been reading got me interested in French classics, but now I'm just confused as to why this lad's famous. Who did he fuck to get into the canon, what happened here?
The chief merit of the play is the fact that France has managed to make the otherwise-awful names ‘Agnes’ and ‘Horace’ tolerable with the aid of very liberal pronunciation. However French you're imagining, it was more French than that. This contribution is noted.
All the Proust I've been reading got me interested in French classics, but now I'm just confused as to why this lad's famous. Who did he fuck to get into the canon, what happened here?
